Re: SPAM with a PGP signature?

[jm () jmason org (Justin Mason)]

Pamela Patterson writes:
> On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:54, KF wrote:
> > Has anyone noticed alot of spam coming in recently with pgp sigs 
> > attached? What would be the benefit of doing that?
>
> Spamassasin deducts a couple of points from the Spam Score of a message
> if it's PGP signed.  It wouln't surprise me if other spam filters do as
> well.

Yeah, it used to.  Not any more, though, since it's being exploited.

If you check, often those PGP sigs are the same cut-and-pasted string
btw...

--j.
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